I Think I Can, I Think I Can
Somewhere between my “Good practice”and my first intra league bout something shifted. It wasn’t only a mental shift, but an all around acceptance of where I was and where I could go from there. In my mind there was only one direction: up. Derby stops were holding me back mentally. Funny to think that stopping was something I had to overcome in order to keep going, but it was my wall. So, I broke it down. I watched videos and read blogs. I spent a morning scuffing up my
Breaking Bad...Into Good.
I am a big proponent of failing gracefully and in a productive way, but sometimes it’s just simply not that easy to accept that this is the way things work. In order to succeed, you must fail many, many times. Even a rose has a whole bunch of dirt to push through before it can bloom. Well, after what I would deem as a defining moment and practice for me, I knew I was still a small seed way down under the muck. And I felt it. I laugh when I remind myself that the MST is t
Derby for Life
I was still pretty shocked I had retained all of the skills necessary to pass my MST only two practices back, and it spoke to the importance of good skill development beyond just simple athleticism. I had a lot of building to get back up to the endurance level I was prior to my injury, but the basics were there. That coming weekend our Skate Wars bout was coming up and I was invited to play. What?! 4 months of no skating to bouting! Could this be real? The lump in my thr
